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Automated reciprocal link checker

Can anyone point me in the direction of a good tool (preferably free, of course) that would allow me to check my link partners, for a link back to my site. I guess I would just like to be able to run through my reciprocal links pages and be able to tell if there is a link back from each of the sites I link to.

Happy to expand or think about the specs a bit more if required, but I am sure there is something already out there.

I know linksmanager does it but I'd rather just stick with staight html on my pages and just automate the checking not the adding.

I thought about making a free web-based system for people... but then I shied away from it because I didn't want digitalpoint.com to be somehow branded as a site that condones and helps reciprocal linkers (not that I personally have anything against them).

That being said, if you have a list of the pages your links *should* be on, I probably could whip you up a script to do it for you (I don't want to get into spidering whole sites looking for a link though... so you would need to know where the link is supposed to be).

If you have the list in a text file, I could make you a PHP script that did it for you if you want.

- Shawn

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Ive made a PHP script that checks recipical links from them awhile back its actually quite an easy script to make, which suprises people, I can make just about anything with PHP!
If digitalpoint turns out to busy or you would perfer a ready made developed one then give me a shout.

OK, so I found PHPCrawl over at Sourceforge and managed to get it to work. Even managed to modify it to run through a mySQL database and return pages where it finds a link. My problem is that once I confirm a link at the site I want to move on to the next site. Can't seem to get this to work with my very limited knowledge of PHP. Normally I just adapt other stuff.

The code is below and I don't think you need to see all the other parts. I just want to be able to move to the next site if foo.com is found in the site in the $row[LinkURL] array in which the content is in the array $page_data[source]. Can anyone help? (Sorry don't know how to put code in any other way)

hey shawn,
this is all getting too complicated... you said you could (in 10 minutes) build a tool? time for you to step in and give us something that actually works and does not require a degree in php or perl...

try mine http://www.link-swapper.com it is new but I am getting many new users since I started it
it is free and has the functionality of all the paid ones, if something is missing, let me know and I will add it.
/BP